<p>The budget cuts are going to start for the 2008-2009 school year. That is when high school and higher education teachers alike will be let go across the state of California. If the same problems with money continues, I would guess that college admissions will go down, but moreso in the CSUs’.</p>
<p>Is it possible she was so stellar that it was assumed Davis was a safety and she would likely head elsewhere? Do we think that factors in?</p>
<p>I think UCD admission is based on a point system so it must be straightforward. I don’t think UCD can reject because it’s a safety, you can’t deduct point for that. However, the people that are reading these files could misread them. But in a point system, it’s easy to tally how many point you get for a specific activity. But for holistic admission process, it’s hard to pin point the exact problem.</p>
<p>Well I don’t think the ‘davis safty’ theory applies to this. Because although she has pretty strong stats, it’s not rediculously over the top for Davis. I mean a 1900 is probably 75th-80th percentile of the class right</p>
<p>It also depends on how competitive the group of students were in the individual college she applied to within UCD.</p>
<p>I have heard that Davis is trying to bring in more students from Southern California, and also trying to round out their population a little bit. That may have something to do with your girlfriend not getting in - is she local to Davis? I hope she doesn’t feel bad - my D got into Davis and Irvine and not UCSB. I think things are a little crazy this year!</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s this year. Half the UC attending people I know didn’t get into all the UCs. Plenty of ‘didn’t get into X but got into Y’. So I’m thinking it’s normal. X and Y being anything from UCI to UCSB to UCD to UCSD.</p>
<p>To clarify: GF has 4.0 UC GPA SAT 560 CR 640 Math 600 Writing SAT 2 630 ENG 730 MATH 2 8 APs (inclu 2 yrs Calc/Eng 3 yrs Hist & Physics) 13 yrs Girl Scouts 8 yrs Band 12 yrs rec bball</p>
<p>We are very confused as to why GF didn’t make the UCD cut. We suspect she may not have expanded on her activities enough or chose majors that are too competitive (Aerospace Eng & Comp Sci). Even worse, CalPoly was her “safety” school & she’s on their waitlist w/599 other applicants due to the CA state budget cuts. We knew UCLA was a long shot, but she loves marching band (and she didn’t make it in there either). Davis is her only choice, and we’re going for the appeal.</p>
<p>In the meantime, we’re waiting to see if UC Riverside, Univ of Arizona, & Arizona State will admt her (she sent apps to those schools last wk).</p>
<p>Any advice on this mess were in is appreciated. Thank you</p>
<p>08Mom - you should go to the Davis admissions website and review the formula: <a href=“http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admissions/fr_selection_process.cfm[/url]”>http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admissions/fr_selection_process.cfm</a> The grades and test scores you quote give a base score of 7160, if I did it right. The admissions cutoff varied by college (not major) and I’m not sure what the cutoff was for your daughter’s college, but most things I’ve seen seem to indicate that the cutoffs were in the general vicinity of 8000 give or take a couple hundred points. You should be able to figure out her “Number of a-g classes above 35 semesters” to get that figure; other items are more subjective but you can guess at them. That will give you a place to start, at least.</p>
<p>She should be gold at UCR and the AZ schools.</p>
<p>if she had her set on UC Davis though, appeal. If they see how bad she wants to go, they might let her in.</p>
<p>I am a bit confused myself as to how I got in,</p>
<p>College- Engineering</p>
<p>Major - Computer Science and Engineering(Alternative Major)</p>
<p>GPA - 3.85 weighted</p>
<p>SAT I
Math 630
Reading 600
Writing 550
total 1780</p>
<p>SAT II
Math 640
Chemistry 560</p>
<p>EC’s: ROP web design for a year… Besides that, basically nothing…</p>
<p>I thought Comp Sci & Eng. was an impacted major at UCD???</p>
<p>Don’t sell yourself short Wolffman as you have a very solid resume. I would put out there though that my friend referred to in this thread has a better one. </p>
<p>Do you come from a low performing school, from a minority, 1st generation, etc? I think there are some 1000 points or so that you can pick up if those apply to you. </p>
<p>If this is all about points, and my girlfriend applied for that same major and got rejected, something just does not make sense.</p>
<p>I think it is great that you got accepted, but it just does not add up to me if UCD told her 1200 students with 4.0’s were rejected, and people under the mark are getting accepted. Its not like this was her safety school. I would say she was a ‘safe match’ applicant for Davis.</p>
<p>No, actually my school is a high performing school(top 500 HS’s in the nation) and I’m just a white boy, and not first generation college student. </p>
<p>I think maybe it was my essays… but I really thought I did a poor job on my essays, however I did cover some key points (My father passed away at beginning of 8th grade),which is perhaps they may have been able to understand why I had an upward trend in GPA throughout High School…</p>
<p>Very interesting. I think it was your essays that gave you the extra boost. It sounds like you really expressed your unusual conditions and you probably got points out of that (as you should). The Davis admissions are surely a mystery. Congratulations again on your acceptance.</p>
<p>John</p>
<p>Push this puppy to the top of the list!</p>
<p>what do you mean??? :</p>
<p>she means to “Bump” the thread so that it can get more responses/questions, and so it wont be lost in the midst of the thousands of lamer threads = P</p>
<p>Doesn’t Davis weigh the number of A-G classes taken beyond the core a lot? I’m guessing that is a huge factor as to why some people with higher GPAs are getting rejected.</p>
<p>All of the schools mentioned within this thread engage in significant affirmative action based adjustments. I think this is a despicable practice. Just think how many qualified, deserving, hard working students are coming of age sans the academic opportunity they rightfully deserved. The practice is shameful.</p>
<p>i got in with 3.622, 1850 sat1, 690 470 sat2, and only some EC, idk how but i’ll take it :]</p>